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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Weekly Straya Mail

Let me tell you about the most miracle-filled day ever.

We made some fantastic goals to help the branch grow this
year and have started finding less-active members to work with. Particularly we
are focusing on young families. This week we were streeting and (I want to say
random, but I know it wasn't random!) housed a young mother, who we started
sharing our purpose with, etc, and then eventually she was like "yeah my
husband and I were married in the Salt Lake City Temple" and showed us a
photo -- so yeah, she's a member! It was really... weird. But super funny,
because we had no idea. She said we can come back sometime and meet her husband
who is American, so hopefully we can start working with them soon.

Along the same street we met another young mother (not a
secretly-LA-member) who we gave a short message about the purpose of life and
the Book of Mormon to, gave her a Book of Mormon and marked Alma 34 for her,
and made a return appointment for this coming week.

Later that night we had dinner with Tanaka Shimai, a member
and her friend who she invited. The way it happened was last week when Elder
Powell, the new missionary to this area, came, Tanaka Shimai picked the four of
us up to take us to her place for lunch, and on the way we saw her friend who
looked puzzled/interested/confused seeing a 80-ish year old Japanese lady with
four white 20 year old boys in her car, so she stopped and explained who we
were and invited her to dinner a week later. So, we had the dinner and shared a
nice message about Temples and the Book of Mormon. She accepted a copy and she
said she is really interested, so hopefully we will meet her again this week.

This past weekend was Stake Conference in Fukuoka which was
incredible, Elder Ringwood came and talked and it seemed to go right along with
the kind of miracles we have seen this week. Right on.

No photos this week. Okay that's boring, let me see what
photos my companion took this week.

Okay here I am wearing an Australian hat because today is
Australia Day, and also Spiderman.

And here I am locking my bike. Yeah. But Mum don't upload
these to Facebook.